Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 64 79
Rank change year-on-year -31 +15 -23
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,887 1,971 3,090
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 4.00% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 4.43% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 988 2,252
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,125 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 1,670 £75,000 +3.45% 920
UK excluding London -58 991 £65,000 -7.14% 488
Work from Home -20 852 £65,000 -7.14% 344
London -11 749 £85,000 +3.03% 595
North of England -40 361 £69,310 -3.72% 135
South East -1 264 £65,000 -7.14% 117
North West -51 197 £75,000 +7.14% 75
South West -50 110 £56,250 -17.91% 130
Midlands -64 96 £65,000 -3.70% 50
North East +15 83 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -27 81 £63,750 -12.07% 36
West Midlands -38 69 £77,500 +10.71% 29
East of England -18 49 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Wales -16 48 £70,000 +34.62% 14
Northern Ireland -30 33 £62,500 +25.00% 16
Scotland -65 32 £60,000 -22.58% 18
East Midlands -68 26 £64,000 +0.39% 21
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (1.80%) Confluence
2 25 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.90%) CMS
3 17 (0.90%) IIS
4 16 (0.85%) Apache
5 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.48%) Camunda
5 9 (0.48%) JBoss
6 8 (0.42%) WordPress
7 7 (0.37%) nginx
7 7 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.26%) Drupal
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.16%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Kentico
10 3 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 997 (52.84%) AWS
2 822 (43.56%) Azure
3 339 (17.97%) GCP
4 272 (14.41%) Serverless
5 226 (11.98%) GitHub
6 184 (9.75%) SaaS
7 161 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
8 127 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
9 117 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (5.72%) Amazon S3
11 102 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 95 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
13 88 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 79 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.44%) Azure AKS
17 61 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
18 59 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
19 51 (2.70%) PaaS
20 47 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.39%) Broadband
2 24 (1.27%) Network Security
3 15 (0.79%) MQTT
4 13 (0.69%) DMARC
5 11 (0.58%) DNS
6 10 (0.53%) AMQP
7 8 (0.42%) Firewall
7 8 (0.42%) Internet
7 8 (0.42%) VPN
8 7 (0.37%) DHCP
8 7 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.32%) HTTP
9 6 (0.32%) RFID
9 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.26%) LTE
11 3 (0.16%) Modbus
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) SNMP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (15.90%) MongoDB
2 213 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (10.65%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (8.43%) Elasticsearch
6 121 (6.41%) MySQL
7 96 (5.09%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.56%) Relational Database
9 60 (3.18%) Redis
10 52 (2.76%) DynamoDB
11 47 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.70%) Big Data
13 23 (1.22%) RDBMS
14 19 (1.01%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.64%) Db2
15 12 (0.64%) DTS
15 12 (0.64%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.53%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 225 (11.92%) Git
2 179 (9.49%) GitLab
3 152 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.18%) TeamCity
5 57 (3.02%) JIRA
6 52 (2.76%) JUnit
7 43 (2.28%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.70%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.70%) Mockito
9 30 (1.59%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.43%) Maven
11 24 (1.27%) CircleCI
12 21 (1.11%) Selenium
13 18 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 15 (0.79%) JMeter
16 14 (0.74%) Vite
17 13 (0.69%) Postman
17 13 (0.69%) REST Assured
18 11 (0.58%) Spock
General
1 459 (24.32%) Finance
2 329 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 187 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 159 (8.43%) Banking
5 118 (6.25%) Law
6 116 (6.15%) Retail
7 106 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 97 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
9 57 (3.02%) Financial Institution
10 51 (2.70%) Back Office
11 44 (2.33%) Legal
12 32 (1.70%) Marketing
13 30 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.48%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.27%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.01%) Advertising
18 18 (0.95%) Games
19 16 (0.85%) Billing
20 13 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 695 (36.83%) Developer
2 436 (23.11%) Senior
3 351 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 282 (14.94%) Lead
5 260 (13.78%) Architect
6 202 (10.70%) .NET Developer
7 147 (7.79%) Java Developer
8 145 (7.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 145 (7.68%) Senior Developer
9 127 (6.73%) Java Engineer
10 111 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 107 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
12 101 (5.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 93 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
14 79 (4.19%) Software Developer
15 71 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
16 67 (3.55%) Lead Developer
17 56 (2.97%) Technical Leader
18 55 (2.91%) Lead Software Engineer
19 50 (2.65%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (26.44%) .NET
2 418 (22.15%) Node.js
3 411 (21.78%) React
4 313 (16.59%) Spring
5 293 (15.53%) Spring Boot
6 271 (14.36%) RESTful
7 250 (13.25%) REST
8 227 (12.03%) ASP.NET
9 224 (11.87%) Kafka
10 213 (11.29%) .NET Core
11 201 (10.65%) AngularJS
12 194 (10.28%) Vue
13 188 (9.96%) ASP.NET Core
14 108 (5.72%) ASP.NET Web API
15 102 (5.41%) .NET Framework
15 102 (5.41%) Blazor
16 91 (4.82%) HTML
17 85 (4.50%) CSS
18 81 (4.29%) gRPC
19 71 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 576 (30.52%) Cloud Native
2 321 (17.01%) Distributed Systems
3 133 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 95 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.38%) Over-the-Top Content
10 39 (2.07%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.91%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 26 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
16 24 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
16 24 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.06%) Mobile App
18 18 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 116 (6.15%) Linux
2 47 (2.49%) Windows
3 20 (1.06%) Unix
4 18 (0.95%) CentOS
4 18 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.32%) Debian
5 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
7 1 (0.053%) Android
7 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 971 (51.46%) CI/CD
2 875 (46.37%) Agile
3 677 (35.88%) Software Engineering
4 676 (35.82%) DevOps
5 539 (28.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 434 (23.00%) Mentoring
7 428 (22.68%) Containerisation
8 392 (20.77%) Test Automation
9 389 (20.61%) Event-Driven
10 382 (20.24%) AI
11 366 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 362 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 323 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
14 271 (14.36%) Scrum
15 246 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
16 242 (12.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 232 (12.29%) TDD
18 211 (11.18%) Clean Code
19 208 (11.02%) Coaching
20 200 (10.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 620 (32.86%) Java
2 501 (26.55%) C#
3 478 (25.33%) SQL
4 461 (24.43%) Python
5 431 (22.84%) JavaScript
6 354 (18.76%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.31%) Go
8 52 (2.76%) Scala
9 44 (2.33%) Ruby
10 43 (2.28%) C++
10 43 (2.28%) PHP
11 40 (2.12%) Bash
12 27 (1.43%) PowerShell
13 26 (1.38%) Bicep
14 25 (1.32%) Rust
15 23 (1.22%) C
16 14 (0.74%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.69%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.64%) Groovy
19 11 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 249 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 174 (9.22%) Degree
3 165 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.44%) AWS Certification
6 56 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.22%) CISSP
9 21 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.48%) PhD
14 8 (0.42%) CISM
14 8 (0.42%) MBA
15 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.26%) GIAC
16 5 (0.26%) ISACA
16 5 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (8.59%) QA
2 67 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 42 (2.23%) GDPR
4 39 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.48%) WCAG
6 24 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.17%) NIST
9 18 (0.95%) NCSC
10 15 (0.79%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.32%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.26%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) PSD2
17 3 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 545 (28.88%) Docker
2 22 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 585 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 351 (18.60%) Terraform
3 110 (5.83%) Ansible
4 102 (5.41%) Grafana
5 59 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.27%) Argo
7 20 (1.06%) Puppet
8 18 (0.95%) Kibana
9 13 (0.69%) Cilium
10 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.21%) Packer
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
14 3 (0.16%) Rancher
15 2 (0.11%) Istio
15 2 (0.11%) MIIS
15 2 (0.11%) Nagios
15 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
16 1 (0.053%) logstash
Vendors
1 298 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 83 (4.40%) Google
3 58 (3.07%) Oracle
4 45 (2.38%) Typelevel
5 38 (2.01%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.48%) Splunk
7 26 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.11%) IBM
9 19 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.90%) Databricks
11 14 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 13 (0.69%) Adobe
12 13 (0.69%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.64%) OneLogin
14 11 (0.58%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.58%) SAP
15 10 (0.53%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.42%) Cisco
16 8 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
17 7 (0.37%) HubSpot